Izzy Ekpo
Community Volunteer at Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Windermere, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolIzzy Ekpo is a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft with a decade of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade AI systems and cloud infrastructure. He combines deep technical expertise in agentic AI, orchestration, and model-context standards with a pragmatic focus on operational reliability. An active open-source contributor, Izzy has helped shape projects and specifications including Apache Kafka, LangChain, Pydantic AI, FastA2A, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. He volunteers across multiple foundations and projects, bridging community-driven standards with enterprise deployments. Based in Windermere, Florida, he pairs professional engineering with creative pursuits—cooking, swimming, and playing drums and keyboard—which he says fuel his problem-solving stamina. A lifelong learner with an M.S. in Computer Science, Izzy is known for translating cutting-edge AI research into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Nova Southeastern UniversityBachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Florida Atlantic UniversityAssociate of Arts (AA) Biology and Chemistry, Associate of Arts (AA) Biology and Chemistry at Miami Dade College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
search-engine10
java10
opensearch9
restful9
elasticsearch9
neo4j6
linux6
parsing6
ubuntu6
docker5
kafka4
kubernetes3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
izzyacademy/kafka-without-zookeeper-setup
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:10 commits in 23 days
izzyacademy/kafka-in-a-box
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Kafka in a Container
Contributions:16 commits in 3 months
containerskafkakubernetesdocker
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